We Talk Tabletop with Lead XCOM Designer Ananda Gupta

November 20, 2013 by warzan

At a recent press event in London we had the chance to sit down with lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Within Ananda Gupta to chat about how tabletop gaming influences video gaming.

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nazghallion

looking fun and i think xcom is a good place to start the forays into pc/console gaming on beasts of war due to its similarities with the hobby (as you’ve pointed out before) its one of the few games i’ll still pick up my xbox controls for actually.

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warzan

If you fancy a game, make sure and drop us a line!

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bothi

“Field of Glory” tabletop and PC game. The tabletop comes in 3 incarnations, the Classic for battles with romans and greeks, Renaissance for something like the 30 year war, and Napoleonic. Its quite historical with very very complex rules. But there is also a PC game (only for the classic era), with some similar rules, and it actually helped me understand the rules a little better. Or better to say: get the hang what the basic idea is behind the rules and then understand the rulebook better, reading it a second time. The game looks like crap and it takes… Read more »

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norgalad

Love xcom enemy unknown so will pick this one up, I missed the original on the Amiga but used to play a similar game called laser squad where the guys you controlled wore armour that looked suspiciously like mark 6 space marine armour

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warzan

I really miss the Amiga ;(

I have sooo much nostalgia with that system!

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solar

When I was a kid we had an Amiga 1200 but my Dad was so tight (bless him) that he would only buy the magazine (Amiga Power I believe) so all we could play was demo games. lol. He spent goodness knows how much on the magazines but could never justify to himself the price of buying a whole game. I love my Dad… 😛

I therefore spent hundreds of hours playing the first 3 levels of most Amiga games released in the 90’s.

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solar

Actually thats a lie we had Zool which came with the Amiga I think. Also he got a pirated copy of Jurassic Park from a mate at work and it came on about 20 floppy discs.

Oh and <3 BomberMan.

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norgalad

I had the Amiga 500 batman pack first game I can remember ever completing the Batmobile sections where amazing at the time

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warzan

I loved the batman game so much!!!!

Firing the hook to scream round corners etc

Amazing times!

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somegeezer

I’m not a computer/console gamer these days (the last one I completed was Quake 2 on a steam-powered Difference Engine) but enjoyed that. And if there were ever an X-Com board game or miniatures game, I would wet my pants with glee.

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brianparker

Hi Beasts.

Is this just for Enemy Within or can us Enemy Unknown people join in? More to the point can I play you from my iPad? While I’m waxing lyrical, how cool would an iPad X-Wing game be?

The golden age of gaming is upon us I think.
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nteger

Are there going to be points limits for the games we play with you guys? I tried a public game and I was 10,000 points below my opponent. I didn’t want to make him wait so I went ahead and readied up. I got stomped, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless.

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dawnpatrolchapter

The future of gaming is now…
One day we will all wake up strapped to a chair with a rod placed in our brain stem, for the purpose of gaming in a virtual world like in that movie matrix 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_C0E1ml5-o

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dawnpatrolchapter

OK so I scared myself concerning the future of gaming, the storyline to this game is so epic they really need to do a board game or a tabletop version of this bad boy.